3909 Rebel Rd, Linden, NC 28356

Rural Residential District

Residential districts are composed of certain existing residential areas of the County and certain areas where similar residential development should be encouraged to occur. The regulations for these districts are designed to stabilize and protect the essential characteristics of each district by promoting and encouraging a suitable environment for family life and prohibiting certain incompatible activities of a commercial or industrial nature. To these ends, development is limited to dwellings that provide homes for the residents plus certain additional such uses as schools, parks, recreation facilities and certain other public facilities. This system of classification optimizes orderly development by providing a variety of living environments based on different levels of permitted population density, facilitating the adequate provision of transportation and other public services. A district for traditional rural use with lots of 20000 square feet or above. The principal use of the land is for suburban density residential, including manufactured housing units, and agricultural purposes. These districts are intended to ensure that residential development not having access to public water supplies and dependent upon septic tanks for sewage disposal will occur at a sufficiently low density to provide for a healthful environment.